Britain did not have a brilliant Olympic Games when London final hosted the Olympics in 1948,in terms of the medal table at least. The host nation won just three Olympic golds , all in rowing or sailing, or which along with 14 silver medals and six bronzes left Britain ranking 12th at the end of the games. But those first post-war Olympics since Hitler’s Games in Berlin 1936 was a time when the value of taking allotment was never better understood. The Houses of Parliament figured prominently on the official Games poster designed by Walter Herz,a Czech refugee from fascism, as Dr Cathy Ross of the Museum of London has famous.
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